A private little world for me... a private little world for you. The online musings and unofficial journals of singer/songwriter recording artist and author Ed Hale. The Transcendence Diaries have been posting regularly online since July 12, 2002. Comments are always welcomed. And so are YOU.

About the Transcendence Diaries

Not much is known about the Transcendence Diaries other than they first appeared online in July 2002 claiming to “come from the future” and are allegedly the work of multi-lingual globe-trotting singer songwriter recording artist & author Ed Hale. Affectionately known to friends and fans as the Ambassador, Hale is the voice behind the Brit-pop/rock supergroup Ed Hale and The Transcendence. Written under the nom de plume “Fishy” is one of many facets of the Diaries that render it a challenge to distinguish what here is true from what might be fictional. One wonders if more than a dash of creative writing isn't at play. It has also been proposed that the 4000-plus pages are actually a collaborative work by several different authors disguised under one pseudonym. Yet one cannot help but feel as if they know this mystery character intimately. The story itself spans more than a lifetime, from a nearly fatal birth to an untimely death and beyond (suggesting the work is indeed fiction). Ed Hale on the other hand is real and still very much alive. See www.edhale.com for more.

“Still finding myself obsessed with a quiet secret subtle and
almost constant gnawing at my insides about the unbearable sadness of
how impermanent everything is. Our lifetimes are short here. I remind
myself that it is up to me to find meaning each day while I am here. I try to
live my life to its fullest and even then I cannot shake the deep
underlying knowing that they are all just moments lived and then soon
forgotten. Where is the meaning in that?” --- from The Transcendence Diaries

Singer, songwriter, rockstar, recording artist, author, activist, thinker, anti-populist blogger, and general raconteur Ed Hale
is a hard man to keep up with. Affectionately called "the Ambassador"
by friends and fans, Hale was originally introduced to the world at the
age of 17 as Eddie Darling upon the release of his debut album EDDIE. A few years later he started using his given name as an artist publicly. (His full name is Wilks Edward Hale XVII -- all first born sons in his family have had the same name for seventeen generations) but Hale is the first to go by his middle name, Edward, hence Ed Hale, instead of Bill. He is best known now as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the popular Brit-pop/Modern Rock group ED HALE AND THE TRANSCENDENCE; and for his most recent hit singles "Scene in San Francisco" and "New Orleans Dreams"
-- both songs blasting up Billboard's Adult Contemporary Top 30 Chart
and staying there for over three months, which made Hale the
"Most Active Independent Artist and Song" on the chart for sixteen
weeks (Hale was not on a traditional "major" record label at the time, but with the independent label Dying Van Gogh Records. Both songs were from his last solo album Ballad On Third Avenue.

Hale releases albums and tours, both solo and with his band Ed Hale and
The Transcendence. The band has release two successful albums in the last two years, the epic rock-opera/concept
album All Your Heroes Become Villains on November 15th, 2011 and the garage pop/celebration rock album The Great Mistake on November 22nd, 2012. Either solo or with the band Hale and company has released nine studio albums. His entire catalog is available at
music stores and retailers worldwide and everywhere music is sold online
including the iTunes Music Store, Amazon.com, Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody, eMusic, LastFM, iLIke. He is currently signed to Fieldhouse Music/BMG, Cherry Lane Music, and the Dying Van Gogh record label.

Hale and band are currently in the studio working on the follow up to Hale's last solo album, which is rumored to be a 34 song collection that will either come out in two or three installments. No official release date has been announced yet.